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Red in the Face?
Eleanor Roosevelt once subjected Winston Churchill to a diatribe on the subject ...
Simla Accord
On July 2nd, 1972, Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the Simla Accord...
Indian Irony
In February 2002, Dr C. Rangarajan, the governor of the large Indian state of An...
Jawaharlal Nehru
In November 1957, a curious article appeared in an Indian newspaper called ...
Jayaprakash Narayan: Elder ...
"India was swept with grief on 22 March 1979 when the Indian Prime Minister, Mr ...
Constitution of India
Indira Gandhi won such sweeping victories in the elections of 1971 and 1972 that...
Arch Remark
"When Sir Edwin Lutyens went to India as architect of the Government buildings a...
Mahatma Who?
The Indian novelist G. V. Desani once translated Mahatma Gandhi's name (Mohandas...
Kate Winslet: You... Titanic
Kate Winslet: "I remember I was in India, and I was walking in the foothills of ...
Jack All? (long)
"'Books do furnish a room' - Anthony Powell, adapting an interior-design thought...
Warm Regards?
Upon their marriage in 1947, England's Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth and Prin...
Turtles
While delivering a lecture on cosmology one day, Sir Arthur Eddington gave a bri...
Thank You India?
When Thomas Babington Macaulay returned from a trip to India one year, Sydney Sm...
Himalaya Mama
Gertrude Hartley, while awaiting the birth of her child in Darjeeling, spent 15 ...
Indian Guru
"When I was in India making a film many years ago," Hugh Grant once recalled, "I...
Taj Mahal
Noel Coward traveled abroad to meet people rather than to see the sights. He onc...
The Raj
In the early 1930s, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr's mother asked a British official in ...
Capitalist Running Dog?
In 2001, many Indian activists began protesting one of President George W. Bush'...
Lackaday Toast
Guests at eighteenth-century dinner parties were often called upon to produce "s...
Peccadillo?
In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the ...
Dilli Doorasth
In the 14th Century, Ghiyas-uddin Tughlaq began to build the third city of Delhi...
Class Act
"To identify himself with the masses of the poor, Gandhi would insist on traveli...
Veiled Insult
While visiting India in 1921, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was shown...
Amy Weber in India
"We were filming a remake of The Thief of Baghdad," Amy Weber once recall...
Lucknow?
In 2002, hundreds of Captain Frederick Wale's fans visited him in India, often b...
Cultural Critic?
John Ruskin was at best ambivalent about technological innovation. He was once a...
Mace
In June 2002, Hasim Abdul Halim, the parliamentary speaker in India's West Benga...
Raj
British officials in the Indian Raj were frequently tempted by the many opportun...
Navjot Singh Sidhu: Sidhuisms
"Just as North American sports commentators compete with unique terms, Indian an...
Indian Politics
A visitor once asked young Indira Gandhi why their home seemed so empty. "What e...
Ray Walford: Gerontologist
"Dr. Ray Walford, the free-spirited University of California gerontologist who p...
Chomsky on Iraq
One evening in March 2003, Noam Chomsky delivered a lecture on the war in Iraq. ...
Tughluq Dynasty
"Ghiyjas ud din Tughluq wanted to shift the capital from Delhi to a new city Tug...
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